Abstract

Domestic violence remains one of the most pervasive violators of womens human rights across the world cutting across boundaries of culture class age and geography. It manifests in physical emotional sexual psychological and economic forms of abuse creating long-term harm to women’s dignity autonomy and physical and mental well-being. Despite significant advancements in international human rights law gender equality frameworks and domestic legal protections domestic violence continues to flourish within patriarchal social structures that normalize control silence victims and protect perpetrators. This research paper examines the complex intersection between women’s human rights and the multidimensional problem of domestic violence exploring how structural inequalities socio-cultural norms institutional weaknesses and lack of gender-sensitive justice systems perpetuate violence within the private sphere. Drawing upon international instruments such as CEDAW the Universal Declaration of Hu